Executive Director's Biographical Note

On 1 September 1997, Mr. Pino
Arlacchi, an Italian citizen, was appointed Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Executive Director of
the United Nations Office for Drug Control and
Crime Prevention (ODCCP), Vienna. As Under-Secretary-General he is directly responsible to
the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Mr.
Arlacchi was a member of the Italian Senate from 1995 to 1997 and a member of the Chamber
of Deputies from 1994 to 1995. During this period he was elected Vice-President of the
Parliamentary Commission on the Mafia, on which he had previously served as adviser from
1984-1986.

In the early 1990s, Mr. Arlacchi established, in his
capacity as Senior Adviser to Italy's Ministry of the Interior, the Direzione
Investigativa Antimafia-DIA, a law-enforcement agency entrusted with fighting
organized crime. In 1989, he became President of the International Association for the
Study of Organized Crime.

In 1992, Mr. Arlacchi was appointed Honorary President of
the Giovanni Falcone Foundation in recognition of his commitment to fighting the Mafia.
This Foundation was named after the Italian prosecutor, and close friend of Mr. Arlacchi,
who was assassinated by the Sicilian Mafia in 1992.

From 1988 to 1994, he was associate professor of applied
sociology at the University of Florence, Italy, and in 1987 he was visiting professor at
Columbia University in New York. From 1982 to 1985, he was associate professor at the
University of Calabria. He became full professor of sociology at the University of Sassari
in 1994.

Mr. Arlacchi has long served as adviser to those United
Nations organizations active in the field of drug control.

His books and publications on organized crime have received
international acclaim and have been translated into many languages. His studies on the
Mafia phenomenon have not only brought him worldwide recognition for advances made in
research and methodology, but had also paved the way for the enactment of anti-Mafia
legislative bills and continue to aid the global fight against the scourge of organized
crime.

Born in Gioia Tauro, Reggio Calabria, Italy, on 21 February
1951, Mr. Arlacchi lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He is married and has two
children.